(Closed) sensitive wording help on programs

I’m writing my programs. We’ll have VIP portable toilet facilities at the house where we’re getting married because I’m afraid the septic system will not support the 100+ guests. The toilets are small, like bathroom lavatories. Does this sound good to put on the program?:

“VIP restrooms are available in the front for your convenience to avoid strain on the house septic system. Please reserve the indoor facilities for family, wedding party, those with special needs, and for those who need more space than the restrooms allow.”

Is this ok, or is it tacky, offensive, etc? Do you have a better way of wording it? Or do I just leave it off since everyone will see the restrooms are there and assume they’ll use them unless they really need to use the indoor restrooms?

I wouldn’t mention the house toilets at all. Just your first sentence:

“VIP restrooms are available in the front for your convenience”

Then I would use word of mouth to tell those with special needs that they can use the indoor toilets.

p.s. Once the wedding is under way, I don’t see why the bridal party should get special access to indoors. It should just be people who live there, special needs people, and you (because of your dress).

@babybee – I was thinking that I should say why so they don’t just think the homeowners are jerks and don’t want anyone using their restrooms. It’s actually a potential hazard for damage and a possible stinky mess, if you know what I mean. With that in mind would you still leave it off?

@paula – Do you think mentioning the house toilets will make them feel like we’re making them second class guests?

Also, I don’t know if the two VIP toilets can handle that many people either, so I want to even it out between indoor users and portable users, which is why I was assigning wedding party to the indoors, since they’ll already be used to having access to the house.

“Do you think mentioning the house toilets will make them feel like we’re making them second class guests?” — Yes, definitely. And it might ensure that whenever they think of your wedding, they also think of “a potential hazard for damage and a possible stinky mess”. Don’t put this in your guests’ minds!

I think that calling them “VIP” does sort of make it seem like most of your guests are “not good enough” to use the indoor bathrooms, even though I think most of your guests would understand what issues you are trying to avoid.

What does VIP restroom mean? I would leave off the VIP part. As you can see, I thought at first that you were referring to the indoor bathrooms as VIP only.

I would just leave this off entirely to be honest, it seems kind of inappropriate for a wedding program. Can you just have signs directing guests to the portable restrooms? Like these type of sign:

And then let any guests who you think will have difficulty using the bathroom know through word of mouth that there is a bathroom inside?

I think if you advertise in your program that there is a bathroom inside, you’d be surprised at how many people will just go in there to avoid the portable ones.

@christineandjohn: Yes I do (think it would make them seem like second class guests). However if you removed mention of (all) family and bridal party I think it would be ok, i.e.:

“VIP restrooms are available in the front for your convenience. Please reserve the indoor facilities for the Smith family and those with special needs.”

(Assuming the hosts’ name is Smith). No need to mention you, because I don’t think anyone will get upset if they spot you going down the hallway. (ETA: Though I note the point that telling people about indoor toilets might cause lots of people to use them).

ETA: If it’s about “evening out” toilet use, you could quietly tell a few people that it’s ok if they use the indoor toilets too.

The toilets are a VIP line of toilets with flushing toilets, sink, lights, etc. I don’t want the guests to think they’re going to be nasty when they go in. They clearly from the outside won’t be the standard ones with the hole, so maybe I don’t need to specify….

So how about this?

“In order to provide facilities to accommodate the number of guests, restrooms are available in the front for your convenience.”